The Beach
by Alex Garland | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0140270051 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0140270051 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by awaywithfairies from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Friday, March 21, 2008
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The Khao San Road, Bangkok - first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach."
The Beach, as Richard has come to learn, is the subject of a legend among young travelers in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle, plants untouched for a thousand years. There, it is rumored, a carefully selected international few have settled in a communal Eden.
Haunted by the figure of Mr. Duck - the name by which the Thai police have identified the dead man - and his own obsession with Vietnam movies, Richard sets off with a young French couple to an island hidden away in an archipelago forbidden to tourists. They discover the Beach, and it is as beautiful and idyllic as it is reputed to be. Yet over time it becomes clear that Beach culture, as Richard calls it, has troubling, even deadly, undercurrents
The Khao San Road, Bangkok - first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach."
The Beach, as Richard has come to learn, is the subject of a legend among young travelers in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle, plants untouched for a thousand years. There, it is rumored, a carefully selected international few have settled in a communal Eden.
Haunted by the figure of Mr. Duck - the name by which the Thai police have identified the dead man - and his own obsession with Vietnam movies, Richard sets off with a young French couple to an island hidden away in an archipelago forbidden to tourists. They discover the Beach, and it is as beautiful and idyllic as it is reputed to be. Yet over time it becomes clear that Beach culture, as Richard calls it, has troubling, even deadly, undercurrents
Journal Entry 2 by awaywithfairies at Starbucks, Macarthur Square in Campbelltown, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, March 23, 2008
Released 16 yrs ago (3/23/2008 UTC) at Starbucks, Macarthur Square in Campbelltown, New South Wales Australia
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Left in bookcase in Starbucks at Macarthur Square.
Release #45 of the 2008 4 Elements Challenge.
Left in bookcase in Starbucks at Macarthur Square.
Release #45 of the 2008 4 Elements Challenge.
Picked up in Macarthur Starbucks whilst there for an after-shopping coffee.